fodder

First developed in the 18th Century as a high-yield fodder crop.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Despite developing the machine with scientists, Ernetti’s claims of what he saw — including Christ’s crucifixion — quickly became sensationalized fodder, with some believing in Ernetti’s discovery and others dismissing it as a hoax.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

And the late rounds were for special teams fodder and training-camp tackling dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Coyote vs. Acme” would be very different if it had been made back in that decade where frivolous lawsuits were steady late-night joke fodder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

How badly he must have wanted to see them, four of his children, there in the fodder house, on Christmas Day; but he would not lie, and so he would not look at them.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

The rank, aqueous fodders grown on such soils are other causes, but these again are calculated to undermine the character of the nervous and sanguineous temperament and to superinduce the lymphatic.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

That there is in the State an enormous area of land which is eminently adaptable to the growing of fodders necessary for successful dairying has been amply demonstrated.

From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

Dode only smiles at his deep cogitations, as he weeds the garden-beds, or fodders the stock.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

Where suitable pasture may be obtained, it is usually a cheaper source of food for cows than soiling food or cured fodders, as the element of labor in giving the food is largely eliminated.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

The amount will be influenced by the character of the fodders and by the season when the cattle are to be sold.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

He would never miss giving the pigs their dinner, he rose at half-past three in the morning, and foddered the cattle in the grey dawn, or milked a certain number of cows, with unvarying regularity.

From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

In summer again, when the great heat dries 45everything up, they are foddered with hay under shelter.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

In the metaphorical strain of a certain writer—"Phoebus drove his steeds to be foddered in their western stables."

From Inez A Tale of the Alamo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

That horses foddered on Lingborough hay would have thrice the strength of others, and that sheep who cropped Lingborough pastures would grow three times as fat.

From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various

At 2 p.m., or thereabouts, they are foddered again, and at 4 p.m. receive the same food as at the morning meal.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

Alas! what with foddering the cattle and tending the store, we are kept from school too long, and our education is sadly neglected.

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

When convenient, they should have access to water at all times; otherwise a full supply of it should be furnished to them immediately after they have consumed each foddering.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

The expense of maintaining and increasing his stock of cars, and of foddering his horses was very great; and he was always on the look-out for more capital.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles

The hay is pitched into this holder in fair weather, enough for a day’s foddering at a time, and is taken from it by the fork and placed in the racks.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings